FANTASY GIRO - STAGE 12: VIRTUAL TEAM RESULTS: With both stage victory and the other first places going to lesser-known riders, and the big guns keeping quiet inside the peloton waiting for more importants legs to come, no doubts that the "Virtual Stage 12" won't enter the Guinness Book of Records for its high score. Quite the opposite indeed: 39 points only were enough for David Cavalier of North Dakota, USA, to claim victory on Friday.

In such circumstances, it comes as no surprise that all 4 players having Denis Lunghi in their line-up took the TOP 4 places in the stage. But the "Fargo Flat Land Flyers" team got 9 more points, thank to its "A" rider, Francesco Casagrande (2nd Overall and Runner-up in the KOM competition too). Second place getter was another David, namely David McKenna, whose "Prime UASTDMA" squad got point from Lunghi and the Alessio Trade Team.

Denis Lunghi's presence was enough to earn Danish-American Per Thiesen the remaining podium spot. "Team Chicago" got the same score as "BS Cycling", but beat Bill Swiontek's team as it was entered before. Both main overall contenders, David Holm and Friedrich, got 13 points. 80 Virtual Teams proved unable to score a single point instead. The tie-breaking rules have been applied to the TOP 30 squads on the ranking.

FANTASY GIRO: VIRTUAL TEAMS - RANKING after STAGE 12: After Stefano Garzelli, it's Gilberto Simoni time. After 47 players on Tuesday, it was time for an even bigger bunch of participants (57 in total), to lose points due to "anti doping rules".

In this case they lost 76 points only, instead of the 160 lost by Garzelli's fans some days ago. But this doesn't mean that it wasn't a big blow to many teams, including more than one serious GC contender.

And once again the most benefitted squads were the TOP 3 placed: "Barbarossa", "Giorgino" and "Weezer's Wheelers" never waste a chance to keep or even increase their lead on the chasers. As fort the gap between Friederich and current runner-up David Holm, it didn't change on Friday, as both of them got 13 points (12 thanks to Strazeer, still wearer of both Cyclamen and Blue jersey, the other was a gift from Cipo), while the pleasant surprise for Christopher Boshar was Alessandro Bertolini's 4th place in stage, which earned him 13 further points (plus the one given by Cipo). A good results for the best-placed Amrerican contender that, having Tyler Hamilton in his squad, could be an extremely dangerous threat to the all-European leading duo in the next stages.

Ireland' John Graham is 4th (and has got today's stage favorite Pérez Cuapio in his line-up), while the first virtual time featuring Francesco Casagrande is Laura's Weislo "SquadraFantastica". Don't rule her out for a (virtual) podium place or even the final victory !!

The points loss by many teams reshaped something at the bottom of the ranking too. Sam Bills and Manuela Kofler moved up a few places, while Philp Howard dramatically dropped to 216th, although Tom Stickney, who got points only thanks to Tyler Hamilton, retained the "Virtual Black Jersey".